When I was a kid for some reason I remember thinking that if you were rich then you had one of those dedicated rewinders so you wouldn't have to wait for your tape to finish. I don't know why I thought that, I just did. Those were the good old days... Copy protection was so much easier to overcome and it seems like fair use was more respected by both the producers and consumers. I may be wrong though. Call it a function of me being so young back then.

I'm going to run out and patent malloc and free separately. Of course I would make more money off of malloc than free. :)

Ah yes. I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for clearing that up.

Unfortunately I think the problem goes beyond mathematics and extends to technical schools of thought in general. It is disappointing that a respected publisher would publish this dribble. I think this day and age people are so desperate to get their ideas out there that they put out anything and for some reason many journals are willing to publish them. I bet you this guy's next paper will be, "I've proven P=NP!"